Combined letter-sheet and envelope



(No Model.)

H. A. DITZELL.

COMBINED LETTER SHEET AND ENVELOPE.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR zgw/ M ATTORNEYS.

NiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. DITZELL, OF ROMULUS, NE\V YORK.

GOBINED LETTER-SHEET AND ENVELOPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,822, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed January 1 2, 1 88 '7.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. DITZELL, of Romulus, in the county of Seneca and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Letter-Sheet and Envelope, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of certain improvements in combined letter-sheets and en velopes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts herein- 1 after described, and pointed out in the claim. Figure l. is an inside face view of the com bined letter-sheet and envelope. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modification, and Fig. 3 is a view of the folded sheet from the address side. Referring to Fig. 1, A is the sheet, which is adapted to be folded twicefirst on the line a a and then on line I) I). At the long side of one of the quartw-sections of the sheet formed the lfolding iiap B, which is guinmei'l along its edge at c, and which gumined portion extends around the end of the quartersection at (Z, outside the outline of the lettersheet. At the opposite end of the letter-sheet is formed the projecting tag (1, whose length equals half the width of the letter-sheet. This projecting tag is designed to receive the printed return address, and when the sheet folded a portion of this projecting tag (the part e included between the dotted lines) lies against and adheres to the gumined edge (7, while the outer portion of the tag, bearingthe return address, projects beyond the gumined edge (Z, and visible from the front or address side of the envelope, as seen in Fig. 3.

To fold the sheet seen in Fig. 1, the right hand side of the sheet is first folded on the line a a, and then is folded on the line b b. This latter movement brings the space c of projection G into adhesive contact with guinmed edge (7, and the flap B is then folded over and its edge 0 made to adhere. It will thus be seen that the letter-sheet only re- Serial No. 224,168. (No modelquires to be run through the press once in printing both the letter-head and return-address words, and yet the *peculiar construction and arrangement of the projecting tag C permit the return address to be visible on the front of the envelope.

I do not confine myself to the exact location of the projection 0, since it may be made to overlap the gumined edge (1 by being located in other positions than that shown in Fig. 1. Thus in Fig. 2 it may be placed at the same end of the sheet as the gummed edge (Z, so that when the lower edge of the lettersheet is folded up to the lower edge of gummed surface (Z, and then the right-hand edges are folded over to the junction of the flap and letter-sheet, the parts 0, e, and (Z combine to give substantially the same result as in Figs. 1 and I am aware that it is not new to make a combined letter-sheet and envelope, and I only claim the lettensheet envelope having the projection C disposed so as to permit its inner side bearing the return address being made visible on the front of the envelope by coming in adhesive cont-act with and overlapping the adapted parts (Z and c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The combined letiersheet and envelope ha ing the gummed flap B and edge d extending outside the outline of the body part of the sheet, and having a projecting tag, C, for the return address, adapted to overlap and extend beyond the edge (Z and expose on the front of the folded sheet or envelope a part of the inner face of the sheet, as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. DITZELL.

itnesses:

J OHN B. CORYELL, FRANK M. TAYLOR. 

